AI-written travel books with bot-posted rave reviews; historic Wedgwood tree saved; ‘stabilization workgroup’ proposes several new city taxes (not all of them legally available); right-wingers want to close one WA county’s only library.

Biopic about ’70s eastern-WA musicians whose LP’s ‘discovered’ decades later; updated vote totals don’t change much; short-staffed youth jail teeming with detainees; how rich must you be to buy a Seattle house?

Seahawks hope to sell lotsa ‘throwback’ jerseys; this year’s Seattle Art Fair to be more local than ever; court says Seattle’s doing too many encampment sweeps without advance notice; in Seattle becoming ‘a trans haven’?

Local man bicycles every Seattle block; Canlis servers accuse ‘wage theft;’ friends of threatened Tacoma church take their case to the Vatican; ‘Seattle Times’ columnist thinks Hitler wasn’t so bad (comparatively).

Harrell gives details about his big downtown plan; Elliott Bay Books at 50; TeatroZinZanni’s got a new ex-church ‘residence;’ trans teen’s family sues Premera Blue Cross to pay for top surgery.

Rep. Adam Smith writes about overcoming chronic pain and anxiety; FTC claims Amazon enrolls customers in Prime w/o consent; alleged Gorge shooter speaks; Seattle’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ street mural outlives some others.

Bringing the music of pre-Soviet Ukraine into the digital age; judge says city can’t ban anti-police chalk-art slogans; it now takes twice the minimum wage to afford a Seattle apartment; a better way to think of AI chatbots.

Seattle Opera’s tale of a young Vietnamese American and her demons; UW researchers, postdocs go on strike; no, illicit drugs aren’t now ‘legal’ in Seattle; thoughts on these newsletters (and me) turning another year older.

Several angles on Aurora Avenue (past, present, future); hundreds walk out of Amazon offices; Burien encampment sweep looms despite county disapproval; more allegations against ex-state equity office head Karen A. Johnson.

Ms star Julio Rodriguez gets his own cereal; Amazon shareholders nix activist motions (again); can the orca Tokitae survive bring brought home?; seven City Council races, 45 candidates.

Thomas A. Doyle nixes a TAD reunion; Alberta wildfire smoke drifts here; new condo tower cuts prices 30 percent; COVID aid programs as an ‘experiment in single-payer care.’

SIFF to reopen (and rename) the Cinerama; Metro’s dropping more routes; we just had a really bad flu season; gay men can donate blood again.

SIFF short spoofs Microsoft’s biggest PR bash; Pagliacci to start pizza-delivery drones; who’s trolling a woman with fake ‘$500 reward’ key chains?; it’s ‘end of COVID emergency’ day.

Archie McPhee marks 40 years of rubber chickens; West Seattle Bridge off ramp closed with a big hole; Seattle schools start planning for big budget cuts; a judge could close an entire Alaska salmon fishery to help orcas.

Painter Alfredo Arreguin dies at 88; more scrambling about drug-possession laws; King County settles with e-cig maker Juul; NLRB claims Starbucks ‘refused to negotiate fairly’ at unionized cafes.